Last edited by _Dominiko_PL (2008-07-10 12:45:01)
Last edited by kylef (2008-07-10 13:27:11)
I think he dos not want raid, but when he tries to install vista, the installer can't see his HDD.kylef wrote:
This happened to me the first time I reformatted and installed Vista. In your BIOS there should be a hard drive priority list somewhere ... make sure RAID is 1st with any other drivers after that.
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This is assuming that you have already got the drives in RAID mode, yes?
R u serious?? I lol'd.steelie34 wrote:
yes you need the drivers for your sata controller. they are small, will fit on a floppy, and you press f6 when you first boot off the cd. then you can load the drivers. pain in the ass, but necessary unfortunately.
Sorry to butt in ... where would I find said drivers? I need them for my RAID set up in case I have to reformat.steelie34 wrote:
yes you need the drivers for your sata controller. they are small, will fit on a floppy, and you press f6 when you first boot off the cd. then you can load the drivers. pain in the ass, but necessary unfortunately.
I'm going to try and not be pretentious and elitist about being able to type "Are" and "You" but ignoring that agonizingly painful bit of text to read, what the hell is funny about it fitting on a floppy?RandomSchl wrote:
R u serious?? I lol'd.steelie34 wrote:
yes you need the drivers for your sata controller. they are small, will fit on a floppy, and you press f6 when you first boot off the cd. then you can load the drivers. pain in the ass, but necessary unfortunately.
What Defiance said. In the XP install, you are forced to use a floppy to get RAID drivers.Defiance wrote:
I'm going to try and not be pretentious and elitist about being able to type "Are" and "You" but ignoring that agonizingly painful bit of text to read, what the hell is funny about it fitting on a floppy?RandomSchl wrote:
R u serious?? I lol'd.steelie34 wrote:
yes you need the drivers for your sata controller. they are small, will fit on a floppy, and you press f6 when you first boot off the cd. then you can load the drivers. pain in the ass, but necessary unfortunately.
usually you dont, but lately it seems like more and more sata controllers need drivers, regardless of raid. and if a controller is raid capable, it will most likely need drivers regardless of whether or not you are using it. for example, we just received 30 new dell gx745's for our staff, and i had to use the sata drivers when i imaged them even though we dont have raid in the desktops.Agent_Dung_Bomb wrote:
You shouldn't need drivers for the sata controller if you aren't in RAID. As noted, double-check your BIOS settings for the drive and boot priority, and that your controller is not set to RAID mode. Also, some boards have a specific sata connector they want the boot drive to be connected to.
Last edited by steelie34 (2008-07-10 16:21:21)
yeah, like i said above, not all mobos need the drivers. vista has support for some, but definitely not the majority of systems out there. i'm sure that will come with time, but if you have an older vista release, or a newer mobo, chances are you'll have to do the driver deal.kylef wrote:
I don't get why you need special RAID drivers, I never needed any of this and most new motherboards have a RAID controller built in ... all I did was set it up using the RAID utility, configure the boot priority so RAID was the "primary drive" and then Vista saw it and I could install Vista fine. (Ultimate in <30 minutes at that!)
i found the driver you need on gigabyte's website based on the mobo model number in your op._Dominiko_PL wrote:
I checked everything 10 times... all BIOS setup's are correct. But still nothing. I posted this problem on techsupportforum.com maybe they will help me
Last edited by steelie34 (2008-07-10 16:31:06)
What Vista installer are you running?steelie34 wrote:
... floppy disk ... first blue screens ... press f6 ...
dude, have you ever done a clean install booting from the dvd from the bios? what you are talking about is just putting in the dvd while you are running inside windows and waiting for the pretty little gui to come up. that is not the same as what he is trying to do. he isnt upgraded or installing over top the old windows, he is doing a cleeean install, format and everything, which can only be done while booting directly from the cd, and providing the proper drivers.Cheez wrote:
What Vista installer are you running?steelie34 wrote:
... floppy disk ... first blue screens ... press f6 ...
Put in DVD, wait for setup, use mouse to click on Have Disk and choose your USB Drive when it asks. No mashing and panic and "did it see it?" like in XP.
Also I don't know what's with your uber fancy mobos, but all the ones I've been getting in have the option in BIOS to change the SATA controller to imitate IDE, and fuck off needing a controller driver. Performance isn't limited, its just how the motherboard reports the drive.
Last edited by steelie34 (2008-07-10 21:07:53)
Unfortunately i cant get to this screen. First, there is a menu 'choose os language, your time and keyboard language'. something like that. I press OK or NEXt, nvrmnd, and i have 'install windows', 'repair' and 'what you nedd to know before installing'. When i click 'instal windows' there just plain background for a sec or two and this nightmare window: "windows could get any information about hard drives'. I dont even have an option to select drivers... i also dont get 'press f6 to install 3rd party drivers' when booting... damn it. I dont know if its important, but this drive isnt clean. There has never been any OS, but it contains about 20gb of junk files. helpCheez wrote:
And I am telling you Vista's install has a GUI.
Boot from DVD =
http://www.legitreviews.com/images/revi … sta_11.jpg
You may have some Volume License install, which is not what he will experience. That or you're describing XP install (brilliantly).
He does not want any RAIDkylef wrote:
Are you sure RAID is set up?
interesting... we must have wildly different vista releases, my installer was a vista 64 bit ultimate volume license, but i get the traditional install screens. leave it to microsoft to make things easy it sounds like dominiko has as even different installer.Cheez wrote:
And I am telling you Vista's install has a GUI.
Boot from DVD =
http://www.legitreviews.com/images/revi … sta_11.jpg
You may have some Volume License install, which is not what he will experience. That or you're describing XP install (brilliantly).
You don't need drivers for a hard drive .._Dominiko_PL wrote:
problem resolved - partly. I put HDD on my old PC and format it, now its ok. But here is another problem - i need drivers for my Western Digital WD3200KS Caviar SE16 SATAII . I searched for them on WD site, but i find only diagnostic tools or sth like that. Please help
Once Windows is installed, you should be able to make the drive visible by enabling it in the drive management._Dominiko_PL wrote:
problem resolved - partly. I put HDD on my old PC and format it, now its ok. But here is another problem - i need drivers for my Western Digital WD3200KS Caviar SE16 SATAII . I searched for them on WD site, but i find only diagnostic tools or sth like that. Please help
